The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.

His most praised early painting Prisoners from the Front was on exhibit at the Exposition Universelle in Paris at the same time. Bufford a Boston commercial lithographer was a formative but "treadmill experience". Though his interest in depicting natural light parallels that of the early impressionists there is no evidence of direct influence as he was already a plein-air painter in America and had already evolved a personal style which was much closer to Manet than Monet.

Winslow Homer (February 24 1836 – September 29 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium.